Antall József szerk.: Orvostörténeti közlemények 51-53. (Budapest, 1969)

TANULMÁNYOK - Zsebők Zoltán: A radiológia fejlődése Magyarországon (angol nyelven)

building of the University only on September 1, 1914. It was at that time that professors Tauffer and Krompecher recommended his receiving the title of university professor. The first original Hungarian contribution to radiology came from him, a radio-anatomical monography on the development of the spine. It was he who discovered "double contrast roentgenography" which stirred up violent controversies, and was opposed in Hungary by Kelen and Elischer. He did not only deliver lectures at the IL, III., and IV. German radiological congresses, but became the chairman of several sessions. His best known students were Vidor Révész, Incze Szabó, Imre Rabloczky and Jakab Nobl. In his whole life he endevoured to learn the essentials and he was the author of a statement in 1912: "X-rays can show nothing else but truth, but our eye must learn how to recognize this truth." Among his contemporaries Holzwarth was a no less romantic personality. Originally he was a surgeon, but on the inspiration of his director, Dollinger, he began an intensive study of the diagnostic employment of the X-rays around the turn of the century, and he was the first in Hungary to use them for the treatment of leukaemia. In 1910 his X-raying work at the clinic was taken over by Imre Körmendi-Gergő. During the "Hungarian Soviet Republic" he was among the first appointed professors (in surgical operations) by People's Commissar György Lukács, perhaps as an acknowledgement of his continuos labours after the radiation injury of his arm in 1905. His figure was soon and unjustly forgotten after his death in 1922 of cancer caused by the X-rays, after twenty years of activity. His memory is modestly kept alive by a memorial tablet in the First Surgical Clinic where he worked. In the early 1900s many Hungarian physicians became interested in radiology as a science. One of them was Gyula Thurzóbányai-Elischer, who took his degree in 1898. His interest was raised by a study tour abroad, in the internal hospital of Leube at Würzburg and by Albers-Schönberg of Hamburg. After his return he became first assistant in the hospital of Korányi and the head of the X-ray laboratory. In 1914 he became private professor. After the death of Alexander two University Roentgen Institutes were estaB. Alexander's portrait